Date: 2025 08-August 13

9:00 AM Follow up session

• Mag drive vs VFD

  • VFD
    • A VFD is a tool for a power system
    • To improve power factor and efficiency
  • Mag
    • A mag drive loses a lot to heat, based on allowing it to slip

• Automation

  • Does the

12:20 PM Follow up session

• Screens are too short, for high flow situations

• There is no way to bypass screens if the rakes break

• Build a physical model to prove that the pumps will operate as expected in the field
  Kim Crawford showed me photographs from the bowels, pre-pump, from when they cleaned up blockage and buildup.

• Key short term problem

  • Overheating VFD's